LETTER:We need balance in land use

Charlie Bostic

Published 12:00 am, Monday, June 3, 2013

In response to the unnumbered assertions in the recent letter regarding the Wind Works signs:

1. Wind works to renew your life each day!

2. EDP is by far a better and preferred choice to the onslaught to productive and open lands likely with residential land developers replacing our farms and farmers with seasonal out-of-towners with the mega-McMansions, lawns, concrete or asphalt sprawl.

3. Let's say NO to codes and zoning for exclusive residential land use and YES for balanced land use planning where agriculture, farmers, recreationists, historicists, nature and tree-huggers, etc. have equal rights with suburban residence worshippers. (Please check the approved town Comprehensive Plan that is much more than a mere "guide," so we are told.)

4. So, care to divulge all your sources of wealth and income?

5. You authenticate your asserted figures, where and when, and then we can have a start in the conversation on windmill efficiency.

6. So, land speculators and developers, including those comparing "rolling uplands" to great real estate opportunities, siting opportunities and their money is "good;" EDP money "bad" that actually helps the farmers to survive and thrive. Where's the reasoning? Where's the fairness? Where's the compassion?

7. Would you sell out your neighbor for a substantial number of shekels?

8. Really tragically fooling the public would be continuing the misguided and envious pursuit of demonizing wind and safe clean renewable forms of energy development while giving a wink and a nod to fracking, mining, oil and gas drilling, and the development of nuclear plants.

9. So, you're against capitalist society? The profit motive? Christian socialism? And for a plutocracy? Greed/self-interest/hysteria/fear/fear of the unknown/fear of mortality, etc. It's a lot more than me against you.